She died at her parents' home on October 31, 2019. She recorded his Three Early Songs for the CD George Crumb 70th Birthday Album (1999), and had also performed his Unto the Hills (2001).
George Crumb's daughter, Ann Crumb, was a successful actress and singer. Ĭrumb's son, David Crumb, is a successful composer and, since 1997, assistant professor at the University of Oregon. He has continued to compose.Ĭrumb has been the recipient of a number of awards, including a 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his orchestral work Echoes of Time and the River and a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for his work Star-Child. Ĭrumb retired from teaching in 1997, though in early 2002 he was appointed with David Burge to a joint residency at Arizona State University. In 1995, Crumb was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal. In 1965 he began a long association with the University of Pennsylvania, becoming Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in 1983. His first teaching job was at a college in Virginia, before he became professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in 1958. in 1959.Ĭrumb has earned his living primarily from teaching. at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1952 and then briefly studied as a Fulbright fellow at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin before returning to the United States to study at the University of Michigan, from which he received a D.M.A. He majored in music at the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts (subsequently subsumed into the University of Charleston), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1950. In 1947 he studied at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and began to compose at an early age.